Research project: A genome-wide approach to understand domestication

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Using genomic technologies we will investigate the genomics of aubergine domestication, revealing the location of domestication, the effect of selection on the genome, and candidate genes potentially underlying domestication phenotypes.

Project Overview

The domestication of plants and animals transformed the world and laid the foundations for human civilisation. We will investigate all these phenomena by studying the domestication of aubergine, for which a whole genome sequence is soon to be released, and which has the benefit of being one of only a handful of crops that has been domesticated more than once. Two complementary approaches will be employed, screening variation throughout the whole genome (RAD sequencing) and sequencing whole transcriptomes (RNA sequencing).

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Funding: University of Southampton, “Annual Adventure in Research” GrantFunding Duration: January 2014 - August 2015